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Rembrandt ?Raising Of Lazarus; Large Plate? Etching & Drypoint
Here we have a great image of Rembrandt ?Raising Of Lazarus ; Large Plate? Etching & Dry point, copper plate etching 1632. Etched work measure 14 1/2 and 10 1/8 inches on antique water marked paper. Signed in the center of the composition RHL van Ryn f. On antique Laid Paper (no visible signs of repairs in good ) condition. Please refer to all the images posted.There will be no others posted.
Recorded image by Bartsch in "The Illustrated Bartsch" Vol. 50. Illustrated as catalogue raisonn no. 73 (another example illustrated) on page 59.
This has the "Fortune Figure Watermark." The Fortune Watermark is mentioned by the Heawood, Internationally respected scholar of Masters prints;
Heawood's Watermarks, mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries includes two traced examples.
According to Heawood, Van der Ley and the Blauws were Dutch paper makers who made great strides in the 18th century, followed a little later by the Van Gelder firm; he also states that the "Fortune figure".
In this, one of Rembrandt?s most astonishing and powerful works, he captures the dramatic scene as Jesus commands Lazarus to ?come forth? from the dead. The figure of Jesus, seen from a three-quarter back view, is against the dark tomb wall. As Lazarus rises from the dead, Mary and Martha lean in over the edge of the tomb, their upraised hands signifying their faith and readiness to embrace their beloved brother. The faces of the onlookers express open-mouthed amazement at Jesus? miracle. Rembrandt uses powerful contrasts in this work to evoke a heightened drama by distinct use of light and shadow. Lazarus and the faces of the onlookers are bathed in the light of Christ, while the surrounding darkness symbolizes the blackness of death.
Provenance: Private Family Collection, Paris.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 ? October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.
Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, his later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardship. Yet his drawings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high and for twenty years he taught nearly every important Dutch painter. Rembrandt?s greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. The self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.
In both painting and printmaking he exhibited a complete knowledge of classical iconography, which he molded to fit the requirements of his own experience; thus, the depiction of a biblical scene was informed by Rembrandt?s knowledge of the specific text, his assimilation of classical composition, and his observations of the Jewish population of Amsterdam. Because of his empathy for the human condition, he has been called ?one of the great prophets of civilization.?


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